[fpc-devel] Problem with Now() and time changed by ntpd

[Henry Vermaak]

On 02/11/11 13:38, zeljko wrote:
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> Please see results about Now() and something that I've mentioned about
> deprecitation of gettimeofday().According to this test, current
> fpgettimeofday() is crap when compared with clock_gettime() (kernel) or
> libc calls (I've copied scenario from kylix sysutils).
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> *Kernel clock_gettime() NowReal() with 10000000 calls = 4870 ms
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> **Libc gettimeofday()+localtime_r() with 10000000 calls = 5085 ms
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> ***RTL Now() with 10000000 calls = 7659 ms ?!?!?!? Slowest !?!?

So fpc rtl is slower even _without_ the stat call in localtime.

Henry